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Charles Robin Allen (2 January 1940 – 16 August 2020) was a British freelance writer and popular historian from London. His British parents were both born in India. His British parents were both born in India.
- 16 August 2020 (aged 80), England
- Writer and historian
Aug 21, 2020 · Charles Allen’s bestselling book Plain Tales from the Raj originated from a 1974 BBC radio series. A Mountain in Tibet (1982) was the first of 25 books about the philologists, archaeologists and ...
Charles Allen has 126 books on Goodreads with 10069 ratings. Charles Allen’s most popular book is Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor.
edit data. Charles Allen is a British writer and historian. He was born in India, where several generations of his family served under the British Raj. His work focuses on India and South Asia in general. Allen's most notable work is Kipling Sahib, a biography of Rudyard Kipling. His most recent work, Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor ...
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Aug 21, 2020 · Charles Allen, the British writer who recently died after a long battle with cancer, spent a lifetime engaging intellectually and emotionally with India. Though he wrote around two dozen books and was perhaps best known in this country for his book ‘Ashoka – the Search for India’s Lost Emperor’, Allen would say that he was a writer of ...
Aug 21, 2020 · Charles Allen, the writer, traveller and broadcaster who has died aged 80, was one of the last children of the Raj and an authority on the British Empire, described by Saul David in The Daily ...
Feb 21, 2012 · Little, Brown Book Group, Feb 21, 2012 - Biography & Autobiography - 480 pages. India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended in tragedy ...
